9.25.2009

Making

We've been making a few changes to our weekly schedule, adding some needed structure. It has been a very good thing. We are slowly creating times and places for all the things that need to be done, as well as the things we want to do. The changes specifically revolve around homeschooling, but as homeschooling is really a lifestyle for our family, the changes we've made have affected our lives.

I'll share more on our homeschooling choices later, but today I'd like to share what I've been making, for built into our new structure is more time for making things, which for me is ultimately making happiness.

Making more applesauce from our neighbor's apples.

Melting beeswax to pour into walnut shells I carefully cracked last year for this very project. Giving these sweet little candles to our new homeschooling friends (definitely more about that later!).

Crocheting lace from vintage thread that once belonged to my husband's grandmother.

Giving a gift to a new friend in the making. I can just imagine this jug cover over the top of her fermenting kombucha mother.

Making changes. Making room. Making friends. Making the life we desire.

What a beautiful post. I love what you say about making time to make things; I need that, too. My grandmother and her sisters used to make crocheted snowflakes like your doily; they now decorate my (and all my family's) Christmas trees. Someday, I hope to learn how, too.

I found your blog through The Organic Sister-Tara and I love it so much that I put it in mu blog roll. This post really spoke to me, I have been on the edge of moving in a different direction and wanting so much to make time for things that we want to do (homeschool wise) it's hard but I know for our hearts to be happier it needs to be done. Thanks for the inspiration, I will check in often. Peace, Dawn :)

Lovely post, Molly. It makes me want to learn to crochet. The pitcher cover reminds me of the pitcher covers my mom brought from South Africa. The center was fine, fine mesh with crocheted edges and bead weights. Beautiful. Who would've thought something so practical could be so lovingly created and given, to be so lovingly enjoyed? Your friend is a lucky girl indeed.

Aw, Molly. You didn't tell me the thread was from George's grandmother! I didn't think the jug cover could be any more special.

It doesn't look nearly as pretty on my kombucha jar as it does on your lovely white jug--but at the same time I think it's in a perfect place. It's resting over something that's alive, growing and changing. Like friendship.

Go buy yourself a bottle of the stuff and see if you like the vinegary-ness of it. It's a little odd, and not for everyone. But if you like it and want to try making your own, I'll set you up with a kombucha baby. Birthed under the most beautiful blanket imaginable.

I love the look of those walnut candles, makes me want to make some right now! And your very first photo gave me a sweet trip down memory lane, reminding me of being young and getting a turn at the old apple peeler/corer and my mom making pie filling to can.

HI Molly~This is such a beautiful post! Rhythm is something that we are slowly finding more of in our days now too...seems to happen with autumn, although with a new baby last autumn, it didn't seem like there was much of it (or sleep ;-).